When we launched the UK Digital Strategy in March, we said that we would establish a new Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) to bring greater coherence to provision of digital skills training at a national level, and to support local level …

The Government’s Digital Inclusion Strategy sets out how we will work to reduce the number of people without basic digital skills and capabilities by a quarter by 2016. We know we can’t achieve this goal alone: the cornerstone of our …

There is a lot of great work going on by organisations from across the public, private and voluntary sectors to help people and organisations go online and take advantage of the internet. Our Digital Inclusion Strategy sets out how we …

If you read our latest post, you’ll know that recently we have been doing a lot of interesting work around the relationship between digital inclusion and public libraries. As part of this, we thought it would be really helpful to …

Recently, we’ve been looking closely at links between digital inclusion and libraries. To help us understand a little bit more, we hosted an ad hoc workshop which brought together our charter signatories and representatives from organisations such as Samsung and …

How we talk about the internet, the World Wide Web and digital services can sometimes be daunting and confusing for those taking their first steps online. Recently, Go ON UK published best practice guidance on digitally inclusive language and imagery. …

The Digital Inclusion Team recently hosted the first meeting of the Digital Inclusion Delivery Board, with members of the Digital Inclusion forum also in attendance. This was a really important event for the team now we are moving into the …

As a team we’re quite often asked about how people can help digitally excluded people go online. That’s why we’ve put together useful and practical information for people to use to help people and organisations go online. I often …

It's been a busy few months and a few weeks ago we finally launched our Digital Inclusion Strategy. Kathy Settle our Director has written about it here if you want to find out more. We'll be posting more things …

We’ve had a great response to our digital inclusion checklist blog and would like to say a big thank you to all who contributed. We’ve summarised the important themes below, as well as sharing a brief description of our visit …

On the 16th January, Baroness Lane Fox led a debate on the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. In the debate, Lord Bates represented the government and agreed to further respond to the points Baroness Lane Fox raised via a …

Digital Skills and Inclusion blog

Digital skills are vital for both individuals and the economy. Digital inclusion is about having the right access, skills, motivation and trust to confidently go online. We use this blog to tell you about what government and its partners are doing to help people to benefit from all the advantages the internet can offer.